Arctic amplification: can the past constrain the future?

GH Miller, RB Alley, J Brigham-Grette… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Arctic amplification, the observation that surface air temperature changes in the Arctic
exceed those of the Northern Hemisphere as a whole, is a pervasive feature of climate …

Last Interglacial palaeovegetation, palaeoenvironments and chronology: a new record from Lago Grande di Monticchio, southern Italy

JRM Allen, B Huntley - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
The sediments of Lago Grande di Monticchio, southern Italy, extend continuously from the
present back to the penultimate glacial stage and have an independent lamination-based …

Causes of climate change over the past 1000 years

TJ Crowley - Science, 2000 - science.org
Recent reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere temperatures and climate forcing over the
past 1000 years allow the warming of the 20th century to be placed within a historical …

Identifying refugia from climate change

MB Ashcroft - Journal of biogeography, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This article highlights how the loose definition of the term 'refugia'has led to discrepancies in
methods used to assess the vulnerability of species to the current trend of rising global …

Simulating Arctic climate warmth and icefield retreat in the last interglaciation

BL Otto-Bliesner, SJ Marshall, JT Overpeck, GH Miller… - science, 2006 - science.org
In the future, Arctic warming and the melting of polar glaciers will be considerable, but the
magnitude of both is uncertain. We used a global climate model, a dynamic ice sheet model …

Understanding and attributing climate change

GC Hegerl, FW Zwiers, P Braconnot, NP Gillett… - Contribution of Working …, 2007 - hal.science
Evidence of the effect of external influences on the climate system has continued to
accumulate since the Third Assessment Report (TAR). The evidence now available is …

Palaeoclimate

E Jansen, J Overpeck, KR Briffa, JC Duplessy… - Contribution of Working …, 2007 - hal.science
• The sustained rate of increase over the past century in the combined radiative forcing from
the three well-mixed greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous …

Suppression of El Niño during the mid‐Holocene by changes in the Earth's orbit

AC Clement, R Seager, MA Cane - Paleoceanography, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
A number of recent reports have interpreted paleoproxy data to describe the state of the
tropical Pacific, especially changes in the behavior of the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation …

Simulation of the evolutionary response of global summer monsoons to orbital forcing over the past 280,000 years

JE Kutzbach, X Liu, Z Liu, G Chen - Climate Dynamics, 2008 - Springer
We describe the evolutionary response of northern and southern hemisphere summer
monsoons to orbital forcing over the past 280,000 years using a fully coupled general …

How warm was the last interglacial? New model–data comparisons

BL Otto-Bliesner, N Rosenbloom… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A Community Climate System Model, Version 3 (CCSM3) simulation for 125 ka during the
Last Interglacial (LIG) is compared to two recent proxy reconstructions to evaluate surface …